Time flies

[micky]

This week is the 100th anniversary of the first American trans-continental telephone call.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Amazing technology and quite an evolution to the phone capabilities we now have. Including the internet.

[micky]

So true.

Except actually, they had the internet in 1915, but Bell Telephone bought it and destroyed it, in order to sell telephones.

[Frank]

Now we get calls every day from Jagdish in India telling us there is something wrong with our Microsoft computer.

[Pico Rico]

what they leave out of the history books: it was a telemarketer!

[Stormin Mormon]

Naah, it was from India, wanted to tell the west coast home owner that her abacus was sending beaded messages, and needed to be reset for a small onetime fee from her credit card.

- . Christopher A. Young learn more about Jesus .

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[KenK]

micky wrote in news: [e-mail]:

It's difficult. First, you need a stop watch. The hardest problem is to get them to fly a measured lap without deviating. They just don't seem to care about your difficulty. Maybe it's just the local flies and they are more co-operative elsewhere.

[trader_4]

I saw an article where it gave the cost of a call across the country back then. It was $400 in today's dollars for 3 mins.